the notion that the language you speak affects the way you think, and even influences how you experience reality itself. It’s an attractive idea, and one that makes some visceral sense. English, with its unique structure and grammar and vocabulary, will necessarily bestow a particular worldview that is different from that of Russian, say, or any of the other roughly 6,000 languages still spoken on Earth, right?

McWhorter makes a strong case – interesting in light of The Drama and the Invented Language in which neo-fascists hijacked John Quijada’sconlang Ithkuil in order to “think different” – like a/the master race.